Q: Interesting from a tyre point of view too.
MS: Could be.

Q: There are three different manufacturers here too - tell us where you're looking at from Ferrari's point of view now?
MS: I hope that in terms of strategy we made the right decision and we can use that to our advantage. We will find out tomorrow. I'm not sure if I should happy about second position and not prefer third position because usually it's a little bit more dusty on the inside of the circuit, but we will find out tomorrow.

Q: Michael, you seemed to pick up time during the lap - you were slower than Rubens at the first intermediate point
MS: About three thousandths

Q: Very little, I agree, but did it seem to you that the grip was improving throughout the lap?
MS: No, I wouldn't say so. I mean, all weekend basically, the first and last sector we have been very close and the mid sector has been sort of my sector and that was the same again now.

Q: So generally speaking were you happy with the lap?
MS: Yep.

Q: How much are you worried about Bridgestone's performance here because they seem to have been a little bit out-classed by Michelin?
MS: Well, we are second so we are very close to the guys and I think our tyre will be quite good tomorrow.

Q: And have you been surprised how competitive you have been? It has obviously been good.
MS: No, I have not been surprised. To my knowledge the Michelin guys yesterday used the soft tyres but they are not on the soft ones anymore and that paid out a lot for qualifying yesterday and still we were in a reasonable position. Where we are now today, I actually feel quite okay with this.

Q: But not terribly happy with second ™?- you prefer to be on the other side of the track.
MS: Yeah, I mean, you know that second usually is a dirtier line and you may lose out because of this - we have to find out. It doesn't always make a difference but sometimes it can. I hope that it doesn't do here but tomorrow we will see.

Questions From the Floor

Q: Were you all fairly unhappy about the bollards there? Did you all want them removed?
MS: Well, I think there's a little bit of a mixed opinion but at the end of the day if you just remove them everybody would just go straight over and that is not the point of the chicane. But in all fairness the solution would be a different kerb, a higher one, because it is a bit low but that is something you can't do over the weekend so we have to stick to the bollards. I think the double solution that Charlie did actually worked out well.

Q: Michael, today we saw McLaren and Raikkonen first and cheering but I would like to know from you - you are almost used to being in pole position - what is left in personal satisfaction for a driver to be on pole with the new rules?
MS: It is different, certainly, and it depends very much on how much fuel you think you have on board compared to the others. If you think you have a lot of fuel on board and you still get your pole position there is a lot of satisfaction. If you run very light and you get the pole it is a very poor satisfaction so that is where it comes to but sometimes you only find out on Sunday. But yeah, it's different to the past.